Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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